Improvement in stexm-bollers



.UNITED STAT-ns PATENT Ormes.-

l(meinen MANN', ,.iR.,for-' vOTTAWA. ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENTrNas'rEAMaol-LERS.

Specification lforming.}' art of LettersiPatent- No'. 113,320, dated June 28, 1864.

. state of enulhtion, more or-less agitated'in 'its boiling prooessand at some times violently Vs`o, i nas1nuch as it breaks and'dashes about 'iii' a boiler with greatimpetuo'sity, whensuch isl the case, the water-gagesiare quite yunreliable, vbut ,by drawing or 'trying'for the water `.supplied tothe gages lby my method oftappingthe boiler from 1nycurved pipe-'the Water is nearly inja quiescent state, and never is al- To allnwhom it mag/concern. :Be it known that I, GEORGE MANmJr., of Ottawa, conntyof LaSalle,- and Statefof Illinois, have invented a new vand useful lfm-- jprovement for the, purpose of accurately testfAv ingthe heightof water in steam' boi lers,and Vfor preventing foam and jscumffror'n entering water-gages of steam-boilers; andIdo hereby declare thatthe following isa full,'clear, and exactdescripti'on.' 1 lowed tobreak and loose its so1idity,butwil1 Figure 1s a vertical plan of my invention, always insure thcsupply to.v the gages' of tl e `representingfthe front -end of a' stea|n.boiler Water in a solid innb'roke-n'column, guarantee' Y with thethree gages a en -a... Fig. 2 visl a--vertifA ing a positive and always reliable gage" of ca section o f the same, representing a curved water-Sor steam, as the case may be; also, that pipe openat both ends, attached upon the in-v it is well known to alll persons usingV steam sldeiof the frontend ofgtheboiler, the `curva- "that a heavy coat of scumij's lfloating and ture of said pipe being for the 'purpose ofi al-1 tumblingabout. in greater or lessquantities, vlowing thewaterfgnges to bealtaclnny tb-the` butbymymethod itjcannotenter the'wa'f'ersame bysercwingthe ends otftherespecti-ve gages, 'it having to remain .-upon the large` glg'es, as they arejnowused upon steam-boilers, argaof the Water in the boiler surrounding the a little farther 'thr ugh the frontend, or head curvedV pipe, while the Waterin'side my'c'urved of the boiler, suiicientlysoyas to screw the pipe is not constantly' changing, as is thccasc ends of said gages into the sides' of the curved with'ihe water outside the pipe. open ended pipe'that is.. placed" behind, so las Inithe accompanying drawings, Figure lis `to receive-their ends. vSaid .curved pipe fis averticalseetion representing the three'gage's, shown clearly in Figs. 1 and 2,' a. c' a, which are screwed through theboiler` Similar letters of reference 'indicateeorrespending parts in the' two figures.

Thelength and diam veter of said open ended governed altogetherl by Vthe size of the Vstea'ilnboiler .upon which itis being used. .For all ordinary locenio'tivellmil-v ors usingvfour water-gages, I'- would recommend ,a diameter of two and a half inches, the curvature. to conform nearly to the'insid'e curvature otq` the boiler, the upper. endofsaid pipe, about one-thirditslength, 4to be extended quitein'tothc crown of theboilerinto the steamspace,'soa s to entirely prevent the waterof, the boiler from possiblyiiowing into itz.V The' lower end of said pipe isextended far down. and within two or three inches of the bottom the pipe 4cfast aginst theinside of the-.bollen lhead'BQ', An ,opening in the side ofthe pipev cis' supposed, in vorder to show the mode otl fastening the saine and' the working-of .the gages 4a' a aj therein'. -Fig'.2 isa vertical planrepresenting the 'front end ot the boiler and also the three" gages a main their respective plnces.- Fig. 3A is a Vvertical plan repf, resenting the inside of the'boiler B, and show i'ng the exact formand curvature ofthe pipe c, alsoits extension above. and below the' Wner-v `line d, said lpipe c to be open at both ends. What I claim asr'newin the abovespecilica` ot"the.boiler, so thatabouttwothirds of its tion, and fol which II `desire Letters' Patent,

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The pipe open at each end and' attached to4 thefrout partof the steam'boiler, and conneete'd with the watergages of the boiler, as sh'wn in the ahem-specification. 1 GEO. MANN,'JR.

lower end only, to rise toits respective height.- y "The advantages of my Vmethod of supplying`-v water'to the gages'of steamboilersv over the ,old way,afnd vfor which I pray for Letters Patent of theUnitedStates'to begrantechis that4 while'the'water of the boiler is in a foaming condition, as I contend allY water is while in a` Witnesses:

B. Coon, G. vC. CAMPBELL. 

